Why Apple Banned Flash
There’s been a lot of discussion of late over the “Apple doesn’t/won’t support Flash” topic. Thanks to my personal Buddha, Paul Eng, for alerting me to Steve Job’s explanation in Thoughts on Flash. I won’t summarize the article here, so read it for yourself. Jobs closes with his 2 cents for Adobe: “New open standards [...]
Expectations of Apple’s iPhone 4G
Rumors surrounding the highly anticipated Apple iPhone 4G are spreading like wildfire all over the Internet. I’m sure tight-lipped Steve Jobs loves every minute of it. Who needs a multi-million dollar marketing campaign when people all over the Internet are talking about buying the phone before it or its specs have even been officially released?
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Social Media Empowers Citizens to Change Public Policy
The founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, recently wrote an article entitled, How Social Media Can Effect Real Social and Governmental Change, where he compared the historical policymakers to the bloggers of today. Basically, his article was premised on the belief that social media has always been around but the vehicle [...]
Smart Coupons
Coupon clipping has been around since 1887 when, according to The History of Coupons and Promotional Codes, one of the partners of Coca-Cola helped launch the company into the public eye by using the first coupon as an innovative advertising technique. Since then, coupons have become a popular marketing tool and a vehicle through which [...]
Adobe v. Apple Standoff
Has the long-running rivalry between Steven Jobs and Adobe Flash finally come to a head? Although no law suit is currently pending, rumors of a possible law suit spread like wildfire after Apple changed its SDK language; thereby keeping Flash off iPhone and iPad platforms. While neither party is commenting about the potential suit, the [...]
Facebook’s Safety Renovation
In the aftermath of the murder of Ashleigh Hall (a 17-year-old U.K. girl who was duped by a man who posed as a teenager on Facebook), and the suicide of Pheobe Prince after being subjected to relentless cyber-bullying, Facebook has overhauled its Safety Center. The new Safety Center provides information for teens, parents, law enforcement [...]
Consumer Reports Video: E-reader Showdown: iPad vs. Kindle
Keep in mind, Consumer Reports compares the iPad and Kindle as e-readers, which I think is how it should be! Paul Eng and Paul Reynolds have a nice back-and-forth debate. What’s your opinion?
The WePad YouTube Video Channel
Still lots of buzz about the WePad, and finally there’s a YouTube Channel so you can see it in action. Without any voice over instructions of what’s going on, you don’t get any in-depth insight into the functionality or interface, but the video does show it in action. I like you you can either use [...]
What Are Apps Worth?
Although five years ago there was no app industry, today the app economy is growing rapidly and could top $20 billion in just a couple of years, says Wendy Kaufman, author of Mobile Apps Market Scales Up From Zero To Billions. But if roughly 80% of all apps are free and most of the others [...]
Keep Your Children Safe from Online Stranger Danger
In the past, parents did not have to worry about stranger danger in their homes. Today, any semi-computer savvy strangers can virtually enter your home at anytime. This is why it is so important to monitor our children when they are surfing the Internet. That is why Daily Biz Site’s article, Online Safety For Kids: [...]